Saúl Ubaldini
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Saúl Ubaldini
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Raúl Alfonsín (far left) and Saúl Ubaldini (far right) in 1984 at
Casa Rosada
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National Deputy | |
In office
10 December 1997 – 10 December 2005 |
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Constituency | Buenos Aires |
Personal details | |
Born |
Saúl Edólver Ubaldini
( 1936-12-29 ) December 29, 1936 Mataderos , Buenos Aires , Argentina |
Died |
November 19, 2006
(2006-11-19)
(aged
69)
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Occupation | Politician and activist |
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Saúl Edólver Ubaldini (December 29, 1936 – November 19, 2006) was an Argentine labor leader and parliamentarian for the Peronist Justicialist Party . [1]
Ubaldini was born in the Buenos Aires barrio of Mataderos , the son of a meat worker and a seamstress. He worked in the processing plants and became involved in the trade union. In 1969 he started work at a small yeast factory and seven years later he was elected the Secretary-General of the small union of beer-industry workers. During the Proceso dictatorship, he was elected general secretary of the CGT , the trade union umbrella body, in 1979. [2] In the years that followed, he led the "Brasil" fraction of the CGT, which showed a harder line against the military than its "CGT Azopardo" counterpart. He led a march of 10,000 protesters against the dictatorship in 1981, the first large protest of that period. [3]
When democracy returned, he became leader of the CGT in 1986. From this position he launched 13 general strikes against Radical Raúl Alfonsín 's government. [4] [5] [6] [7] However, the CGT's combativeness subsided once Peronism was back in power. In 1989 Ubaldini was displaced as head of the CGT by supporters of President Carlos Menem . Although he had backed Menem's election campaign publicly, Ubaldini opposed Menem's free market reforms and refused to vacate the CGT building. [8]
In 1993, Ubaldini stood to be Governor of Buenos Aires Province , heavily defeated by the Menemist Eduardo Duhalde . He was elected in 1997 and again in 2001 as a national deputy for Buenos Aires Province . In his last role he assisted the Planning Minister Julio de Vido . [9] He had also been vice president of the international trade union movement CIOSL (now known as Trade Union Confederation of the Americas ).
He died of lung cancer , aged 69, in Buenos Aires. [10]
References
- ↑ "Murió Saúl Ubaldini" . lanacion.com.ar. November 19, 2006 . Retrieved September 9, 2015 .
- ↑ "Murió Saúl Ubaldini, el líder de la CGT de los trece paros a Alfonsín" . pagina12.com.ar. November 20, 2006 . Retrieved September 9, 2015 .
- ↑ Borner, Jutta. "Zur neueren Entwicklung der argentinischen Gewerkschaftsbewegung", 1982" (PDF) (in German). library.fes.de . Retrieved September 9, 2015 .
- ↑ Dean, Adam (2022), "Opening Argentina: Menem's Repression of the CGT" , Opening Up by Cracking Down: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Democratic Developing Countries , Cambridge University Press, pp. 113–147, doi : 10.1017/9781108777964.007 , ISBN 978-1-108-47851-9
- ↑ "Emotivo adiós a Saúl Ubaldini" . clarin.com. November 20, 2006 . Retrieved September 9, 2015 .
- ↑ "Argentinien: Tausend Prozent Inflation" . zeit.de. May 31, 1985 . Retrieved September 9, 2015 .
- ↑ Smith, William C. (1991). Authoritarianism and the Crisis of the Argentine Political Economy . Stanford University Press . p. 287. ISBN 0804719616 . Retrieved September 9, 2015 .
- ↑ "Argentine Chief Clashes With Labor" . nytimes.com . November 14, 1989 . Retrieved September 9, 2015 .
- ↑ "Duhalde bildet Regierung um" (PDF) . tageblatt.com.ar. May 2, 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 6, 2007 . Retrieved September 9, 2015 .
- ↑ "Murió ayer Saúl Ubaldini, el ex titular de la CGT argentina" . lr21.com.uy. November 20, 2006 . Retrieved September 9, 2015 .
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